SpawnMultiCursorAll - feature request

[Gavin-Holt]

Hi,

Multi-cursor editing is great! The more I use multiple cursors, the more I wish for a function to edit all occurrences of a selection. I guess a pair of functions ScrollNextCursor/ScrollPrevCursor would also be needed so we can check all the selections before editing.

This would be much easier than ReplaceAll. ReplaceAll requires me to type/paste the target, then the replacement and feels long-winded, especially when there are spaces demanding quotes. If I make an error with ReplaceAll I may lose the unique target and cannot correct without undo.

Simply typing the replacement using multiple cursors feels much easier - like a superpower!

Sorry I don't have the skills to code this myself.

Kind Regards Gavin Holt

Version: 2.0.12-dev.75
Commit hash: 75b9a6c
Compiled on September 02, 2023
OS: Windows
Terminal: Conhost.exe

[mosskjohnson]

@Gavin-Holt

Hi Gavin,

I am currently working on a plugin for this feature. However, as far as I know there is no way to create new multicursors through lua plugins. I've submitted a pull request to add this binding, though.

[dmaluka]

Can't this be already done from lua via bp:SpawnMultiCursor() (possibly with an additional help from bp:Buf:SetCurCursor() or similar functions, if needed)?